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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

Subjects : clep, literature
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1. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






2. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






3. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






4. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






5. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






6. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






7. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






8. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.






9. The main character of a literary work.






10. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






11. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






12. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






13. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






14. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






15. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.






16. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






17. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






18. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






19. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






20. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






21. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






22. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.






23. A poem that tells a story.






24. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






25. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






26. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






27. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






28. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






29. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






30. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






31. A character struggles against some outside force.






32. The way people speak in various parts of the country or around the world.






33. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






34. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






35. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






36. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






37. The time and place of a story or play.






38. The dictionary meaning of a word.






39. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






40. The group of readers to whom a piece of literature is directed.






41. The narrator is outside of the story and tells the story from the perspective of only one character.






42. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






43. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






44. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






45. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






46. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






47. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






48. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






49. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






50. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.







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